Nommo: An Anthology of Modern Black African and Black American Literature
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Nommo: An Anthology of Modern Black African and Black American Literature
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"Nommo: An Anthology of Modern Black African and Black American Literature". Ed. William Henry Robinson. New York: Macmillan, 1972. xvi+501 pp.
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Table of contents
● William Henry Robinson / Preface
● William Henry Robinson / Introduction
The Black Rage
Essays
● Julius Lester / White Power
● Johnny Scott / The Coming of the Hoodlum [excerpt]
● H. "Rap" Brown / Die, Nigger, Die [excerpt]
● Bloke Modisane [South Africa] / Blame Me on History [excerpt]
● Alfred Hutchinson [South Africa] / Road to Ghana [excerpt]
● John Pepper Clark [Nigeria] / America, Their America [excerpt]
Stories
● James Alan McPherson / An Act of Prostitution
● Can Themba [South Africa] / The Urchin
● Richard Rive [South Africa] / Rain
Novel Excerpts
● Carlene H. Polite / The Flagellants [excerpt]
● "Iceberg Slim" (Robert Beck) / Pimp: Story of My Life [excerpt]
● Nathan C. Heard / Howard Street [excerpt]
● Ferdinand Oyono [Cameroon] / Houseboy [excerpt]
● David Rubadiri [Malawi] / No Bride Price [excerpt]
Drama
● Ed Bullins / The Electronic Nigger
● LeRoi Jones / Madheart
● Lewis Nkosi [South Africa] / The Rhythm of Violence
Poetry
● Melvin B. Tolson / Libretto for the Republic of Liberia [excerpt]
● Langston Hughes / Harlem (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / Prime (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / The Backlash Blues (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / Who but the Lord (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / Still Here (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / Worlds Like Freedom (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / Little Song on Housing (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / Final Call (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Robert Hayden / A Ballad of Remembrance (from "Selected Poems")
● Robert Hayden / Incense of the Lucky Virgin (from "Selected Poems")
● Robert Hayden / Summertime and the Living . . . (from "Selected Poems")
● Robert Hayden / Runagate, Runagate (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Negro Hero (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Beverly Hills, Chicago (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Truth (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Bean Eaters (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / We Real Cool (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Ballad of Rudolph Reed (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Boy Breaking Glass (from "In the Mecca")
● Paul Vesey (Samuel W. Allen) / View from the Corner
● Paul Vesey (Samuel W. Allen) / In My Father's House
● Paul Vesey (Samuel W. Allen) / A Moment Please
● Paul Vesey (Samuel W. Allen) / That's Mighty Fine, My Friend
● Keorapetse W. Kgositsile [South Africa] / To Fanon (from "Spirits Unchained")
● Keorapetse W. Kgositsile [South Africa] / Lumumba Section (from "Spirits Unchained")
● Keorapetse W. Kgositsile [South Africa] / Spirits Unchained (from "Spirits Unchained")
● Keorapetse W. Kgositsile [South Africa] / Brother Malcolm's Echo (from "Spirits Unchained")
● Keorapetse W. Kgositsile [South Africa] / Mandela's Sermon (from "Spirits Unchained")
● Okot p'Bitek [Uganda] / Song of Lawino [excerpt]
● David Diop [Senegal] / Listen Comrades (from "Coups de Pilon")
● David Diop [Senegal] / The Renegade (from "Coups de Pilon")
● David Diop [Senegal] / Africa (from "Coups de Pilon")
● David Diop [Senegal] / Nigger Tramp (from "Coups de Pilon")
The Black Revolts
New Black Identities: Assertions and Arguments
● Ellen C[onroy] Kennedy / An Interview with an Architect of Negritude: Césaire [Martinique]
● Aimé Césaire [Martinique] / Cahier d'un retour au pays natal [excerpt]
● Rosey E. Pool / A Conversation with Léopold Senghor [Senegal]
● Léopold Sédar Senghor [Senegal] / The Defense and Illustration of Negritude
● Léopold Sédar Senghor [Senegal] / Black Woman (from "Selected Poems")
● Léopold Sédar Senghor [Senegal] / Ndéssé or Blues (from "Selected Poems")
● Léopold Sédar Senghor [Senegal] / Spring Song (from "Selected Poems")
● Léopold Sédar Senghor [Senegal] / New York (from "Selected Poems")
● LeRoi Jones / Statement/ LeRoi Jones
● Clarence Major / A Black Criterion
● Ezekiel Mphahlele [South Africa] / The African Image
● Frantz Fanon [Martinique] / The Wretched of the Earth [excerpt]
● Richard Wright / White Man, Listen! [excerpt]
The African Revolts
Stories
● Efua Sutherland [Ghana] / New Life at Kyerefaso
Novel Excerpts
● Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] / A Man of the People [excerpt]
● Lenrie Peters [The Gambia] / The Second Round [excerpt]
● Ayi Kwei Armah [Ghana] / The Beautyful [sic] Ones Are Not Yet Born [excerpt]
● James Ngugi [Kenya] / The River Between [excerpt]
● Cyprian Ekwensi [Nigeria] / Jagua Nana [excerpt]
● Camara Laye [Guinea] / The Dark Child [excerpt]
Drama
● Wole Soyinka [Nigeria] / The Strong Breed
● John Pepper Clark [Nigeria] / The Song of a Goat [excerpt]
Poetry
● Gabriel Okara [Nigeria] / Piano and Drums
● Gabriel Okara [Nigeria] / You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed
● Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] / The Meaning of Africa
The Afro-American Revolts
Essays
● John Killens / The Myth of Non-Violence Versus the Right of Self-Defence
● Eldridge Cleaver / To All Black Women, From All Black Men
● Harold Cruse / The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual [excerpt]
● James Forman / The Black Manifesto
● Robert H. DeCoy / The Nigger Bible
Stories
● Charles Wright / A New Day
● Larry Neal / Sinner Man, Where You Gonna Run To?
Novel Excerpts
● Ishmael Reed / The Free-Lance Pallbearers [excerpt]
Drama
● Ben Caldwell / The Job
● Ron Milner / The Monster
Poetry
● LeRoi Jones / A Poem for Black Hearts (from "For Malcolm")
● LeRoi Jones / Black Art (from "Black Arts")
● LeRoi Jones / Black People: This Is Our Destiny (from "Black Arts")
● LeRoi Jones / W. W. (from "Black Arts")
● Don L. Lee / The New Integrationist (from "Black Pride")
● Don L. Lee / In the Interest of Black Salvation (from "Black Pride")
● Don L. Lee / The Wall (from "Black Pride")
● Don L. Lee / The Traitor (from "Black Pride")
● Don L. Lee / No More Marching (from "Black Pride")
● Don L. Lee / Blackwoman (from "Don't Cry, Scream")
● Don L. Lee / A Message All Black People Can Dig (from "Don't Cry, Scream")
● Raymond Patterson / At That Moment (from "26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man")
● Raymond Patterson / What We Know (from "26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man")
● Raymond Patterson / #1 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #3 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #19 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #23 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #31 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #37 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #40 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #85 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Sonia Sanchez / nigger (from "Homecoming")
● Sonia Sanchez / to blk/record/buyers (from "Homecoming")
● Carolyn Rogers / Written for Love of an Ascension-Coltrane (from "Paper Soul")
● Horace Mungin / White (from "Now See Here, Homes")
● Horace Mungin / Welfare (from "Now See Here, Homes")
● Jewel Latimore (Johari Amini) / (For Nigareens) (from "Black Essence")
● Jewel Latimore (Johari Amini) / To a Wite Boy (or an answer for a late question)
● Etheridge Knight / For Malcolm, A Year Later (from "Poems from Prison")
● Etheridge Knight / It Was a Funky Deal (from "Poems from Prison")
● Bob Kaufman / Blue Notes (from "Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness")
● Bob Kaufman / Oct. 5, 1963 (from "Golden Sardine")
● Jaja A. Wachuku / Afterword: The Relationship of AMSAC and the American Negro to Africa and Pan-Africanism
Biographical Sketches
Bibliography
About the Editor
Index
● William Henry Robinson / Introduction
The Black Rage
Essays
● Julius Lester / White Power
● Johnny Scott / The Coming of the Hoodlum [excerpt]
● H. "Rap" Brown / Die, Nigger, Die [excerpt]
● Bloke Modisane [South Africa] / Blame Me on History [excerpt]
● Alfred Hutchinson [South Africa] / Road to Ghana [excerpt]
● John Pepper Clark [Nigeria] / America, Their America [excerpt]
Stories
● James Alan McPherson / An Act of Prostitution
● Can Themba [South Africa] / The Urchin
● Richard Rive [South Africa] / Rain
Novel Excerpts
● Carlene H. Polite / The Flagellants [excerpt]
● "Iceberg Slim" (Robert Beck) / Pimp: Story of My Life [excerpt]
● Nathan C. Heard / Howard Street [excerpt]
● Ferdinand Oyono [Cameroon] / Houseboy [excerpt]
● David Rubadiri [Malawi] / No Bride Price [excerpt]
Drama
● Ed Bullins / The Electronic Nigger
● LeRoi Jones / Madheart
● Lewis Nkosi [South Africa] / The Rhythm of Violence
Poetry
● Melvin B. Tolson / Libretto for the Republic of Liberia [excerpt]
● Langston Hughes / Harlem (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / Prime (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / The Backlash Blues (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / Who but the Lord (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / Still Here (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / Worlds Like Freedom (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / Little Song on Housing (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Langston Hughes / Final Call (from "The Panther and the Lash")
● Robert Hayden / A Ballad of Remembrance (from "Selected Poems")
● Robert Hayden / Incense of the Lucky Virgin (from "Selected Poems")
● Robert Hayden / Summertime and the Living . . . (from "Selected Poems")
● Robert Hayden / Runagate, Runagate (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Negro Hero (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Beverly Hills, Chicago (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Truth (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Bean Eaters (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / We Real Cool (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Ballad of Rudolph Reed (from "Selected Poems")
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Boy Breaking Glass (from "In the Mecca")
● Paul Vesey (Samuel W. Allen) / View from the Corner
● Paul Vesey (Samuel W. Allen) / In My Father's House
● Paul Vesey (Samuel W. Allen) / A Moment Please
● Paul Vesey (Samuel W. Allen) / That's Mighty Fine, My Friend
● Keorapetse W. Kgositsile [South Africa] / To Fanon (from "Spirits Unchained")
● Keorapetse W. Kgositsile [South Africa] / Lumumba Section (from "Spirits Unchained")
● Keorapetse W. Kgositsile [South Africa] / Spirits Unchained (from "Spirits Unchained")
● Keorapetse W. Kgositsile [South Africa] / Brother Malcolm's Echo (from "Spirits Unchained")
● Keorapetse W. Kgositsile [South Africa] / Mandela's Sermon (from "Spirits Unchained")
● Okot p'Bitek [Uganda] / Song of Lawino [excerpt]
● David Diop [Senegal] / Listen Comrades (from "Coups de Pilon")
● David Diop [Senegal] / The Renegade (from "Coups de Pilon")
● David Diop [Senegal] / Africa (from "Coups de Pilon")
● David Diop [Senegal] / Nigger Tramp (from "Coups de Pilon")
The Black Revolts
New Black Identities: Assertions and Arguments
● Ellen C[onroy] Kennedy / An Interview with an Architect of Negritude: Césaire [Martinique]
● Aimé Césaire [Martinique] / Cahier d'un retour au pays natal [excerpt]
● Rosey E. Pool / A Conversation with Léopold Senghor [Senegal]
● Léopold Sédar Senghor [Senegal] / The Defense and Illustration of Negritude
● Léopold Sédar Senghor [Senegal] / Black Woman (from "Selected Poems")
● Léopold Sédar Senghor [Senegal] / Ndéssé or Blues (from "Selected Poems")
● Léopold Sédar Senghor [Senegal] / Spring Song (from "Selected Poems")
● Léopold Sédar Senghor [Senegal] / New York (from "Selected Poems")
● LeRoi Jones / Statement/ LeRoi Jones
● Clarence Major / A Black Criterion
● Ezekiel Mphahlele [South Africa] / The African Image
● Frantz Fanon [Martinique] / The Wretched of the Earth [excerpt]
● Richard Wright / White Man, Listen! [excerpt]
The African Revolts
Stories
● Efua Sutherland [Ghana] / New Life at Kyerefaso
Novel Excerpts
● Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] / A Man of the People [excerpt]
● Lenrie Peters [The Gambia] / The Second Round [excerpt]
● Ayi Kwei Armah [Ghana] / The Beautyful [sic] Ones Are Not Yet Born [excerpt]
● James Ngugi [Kenya] / The River Between [excerpt]
● Cyprian Ekwensi [Nigeria] / Jagua Nana [excerpt]
● Camara Laye [Guinea] / The Dark Child [excerpt]
Drama
● Wole Soyinka [Nigeria] / The Strong Breed
● John Pepper Clark [Nigeria] / The Song of a Goat [excerpt]
Poetry
● Gabriel Okara [Nigeria] / Piano and Drums
● Gabriel Okara [Nigeria] / You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed
● Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] / The Meaning of Africa
The Afro-American Revolts
Essays
● John Killens / The Myth of Non-Violence Versus the Right of Self-Defence
● Eldridge Cleaver / To All Black Women, From All Black Men
● Harold Cruse / The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual [excerpt]
● James Forman / The Black Manifesto
● Robert H. DeCoy / The Nigger Bible
Stories
● Charles Wright / A New Day
● Larry Neal / Sinner Man, Where You Gonna Run To?
Novel Excerpts
● Ishmael Reed / The Free-Lance Pallbearers [excerpt]
Drama
● Ben Caldwell / The Job
● Ron Milner / The Monster
Poetry
● LeRoi Jones / A Poem for Black Hearts (from "For Malcolm")
● LeRoi Jones / Black Art (from "Black Arts")
● LeRoi Jones / Black People: This Is Our Destiny (from "Black Arts")
● LeRoi Jones / W. W. (from "Black Arts")
● Don L. Lee / The New Integrationist (from "Black Pride")
● Don L. Lee / In the Interest of Black Salvation (from "Black Pride")
● Don L. Lee / The Wall (from "Black Pride")
● Don L. Lee / The Traitor (from "Black Pride")
● Don L. Lee / No More Marching (from "Black Pride")
● Don L. Lee / Blackwoman (from "Don't Cry, Scream")
● Don L. Lee / A Message All Black People Can Dig (from "Don't Cry, Scream")
● Raymond Patterson / At That Moment (from "26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man")
● Raymond Patterson / What We Know (from "26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man")
● Raymond Patterson / #1 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #3 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #19 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #23 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #31 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #37 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #40 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Raymond Patterson / #85 (from "Riot Rimes, U.S.A." section III)
● Sonia Sanchez / nigger (from "Homecoming")
● Sonia Sanchez / to blk/record/buyers (from "Homecoming")
● Carolyn Rogers / Written for Love of an Ascension-Coltrane (from "Paper Soul")
● Horace Mungin / White (from "Now See Here, Homes")
● Horace Mungin / Welfare (from "Now See Here, Homes")
● Jewel Latimore (Johari Amini) / (For Nigareens) (from "Black Essence")
● Jewel Latimore (Johari Amini) / To a Wite Boy (or an answer for a late question)
● Etheridge Knight / For Malcolm, A Year Later (from "Poems from Prison")
● Etheridge Knight / It Was a Funky Deal (from "Poems from Prison")
● Bob Kaufman / Blue Notes (from "Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness")
● Bob Kaufman / Oct. 5, 1963 (from "Golden Sardine")
● Jaja A. Wachuku / Afterword: The Relationship of AMSAC and the American Negro to Africa and Pan-Africanism
Biographical Sketches
Bibliography
About the Editor
Index
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